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by rvense 5y ago
> So that's a pretty neat service they're offering to a substantial part of the population. For sure, Facebook is great. It just provides services that shouldn't come from one single company in America. They should be forc
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by rvense 5y ago
I agree that there is no good analogy for what Facebook is, because it is different. But I think what people really mean when they say this is that Facebook has largely supplanted those things. This might not be true where you are, or for
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by rvense 5y ago
I'd probably make music instead of reading about making music.
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by rvense 5y ago
I have just under ten years of AA (and sobriety) under my belt, so I have heard a lot of war stories. I can't remember ever hearing anyone claim more than about 0.65% BAC. 1% sounds more than a little extreme.
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by rvense 5y ago
Maybe when cryptocurrency enthusiasts stop running around with bullhorns telling people about how they're going to save the world. You're not saving anything. There are valid criticisms of the current financial system, but cryptoc
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by rvense 5y ago
> Democracy is granting power to the majority to rule on the minority. By definition. It really isn't. Maybe "Western-style, representative democracy" implies that. But democracy in general, to me, is any system where peo
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by rvense 5y ago
> You can't just ignore the negative aspects of a system because it doesn't suit your sensibilities. What I said was, if a system of government allows one group of people to turn another group of people into slaves, then it isn
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by rvense 5y ago
99 people forcing one person (or one thousand people) into slave labour does not satisfy my definition of democracy. Of course those that are more affected by an issue should have more of a say in it. Of course democracy must be founded on
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by rvense 5y ago
I never said democracy was easy. I just said it was necessary.
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by rvense 5y ago
In the fine article, he says that freedom and democracy are at odds. This rather bizarre conception of freedom is, I'm sure, the same thought that propelled him to f(o)und that well-know force for liberation of the common man, Palantir
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by rvense 5y ago
But the boards are much easier to get to and more easily available.
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by rvense 5y ago
It is not open hardware. I don't think you can get schematics for the modules. But it is a lot easier to replace the display or the core board than in most other phones. For one, you open it with a screwdriver, not a hot air gun. And
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by rvense 5y ago
I know lots of people had issues with their FP2, but I have to say I used mine for just under five years (before it stopped booting). I'll give that it didn't always feel reliable (random reboots etc), but it worked well enough. I
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by rvense 5y ago
One of my dream projects is a graphical, single-user operating system for, say, small ARM microcontrollers. You can easily get 10x the computing power of an Atari that runs in tens of milliamps.
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by rvense 5y ago
> There is always a war in every level of biology. You assert this with no proof, when asked if you have read a book which presents a case for a different viewpoint: that there is (also) cooperation and interdependence. It is, to me, so
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by rvense 5y ago
> a philosophical tradition derives from Kropotkin rather than Marx. Bakunin, another early anarchist, at a conference of the First Internationale in about 1870, said to Karl Marx something like "If you take the most convinced revol
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by rvense 5y ago
I think it's a bit weird to talk of the universe being just or unjust. The universe is what it is. To me, an action taken by a person can be just or unjust, and a person can be said to be just or unjust based on a sort of average of th
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by rvense 5y ago
who cares about them
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by rvense 5y ago
Many people fret about spaghetti code. Personally, I also fear lasagna code - too many layers, often with poor separation.
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by rvense 5y ago
"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed." Most people were blissfully unaware of the existence of PDAs, much less how they worked or what they could do, and for them the iPhone might as well have emerged
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by rvense 5y ago
I think it depends who you were. Some people went more or less directly to being always connected to an iPhone from a world of monochrome Nokias and portable CD (or cassette, even) players and the internet being on a PC tower in a separate
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by rvense 5y ago
Plenty of feature phones in the late 00's had USB on non-standard connectors.
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by rvense 5y ago
I can only say I really, really hope this substantially slows down the introduction of new ports and connectors. USB-C is a n overly complicated clusterfuck, but it'll do for the vast majority of applications for a very long time.
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by rvense 5y ago
Because they were forced to use it due to EU legislation.
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by rvense 5y ago
I really wanted to use it at my last job, where we had a Go backend and a React SPA and a sprawling, ad hoc RESTish API in between that was only used by the SPA. We were mostly split between Reactors and Gophers, and the amount of time we s
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by rvense 5y ago
I'm guessing you're talking about America? 50% of the surface area of Denmark is dedicated to growing feed for pigs, and we import a lot as well. All that land could be used for growing food for people directly, or for other thing
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by rvense 5y ago
No, not high. About what you'd expect for unskilled work.
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by rvense 5y ago
> My recollection was that internals of A/UX emulation were reused to enable the PowerPC transition from Motorola, but I might be wrong about that. I don't think so. I don't remember a connection, at least, but it'll
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by rvense 5y ago
Yeah, I also remember 2004.
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by rvense 5y ago
It's hard for me to articulate how this makes me feel. As someone who values anonymity and, for no particular reason, would prefer not to be photographed and have my movements tracked, I feel like I am being forced from public spaces.

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